He was starting to loathe the place. Not because it was bad looking or decrepit or something, nor did it houses any particularly evil or bad people. What it did house were plenty of bad memories. However it did not stop him from coming down here for a job. The job in question was handed to him from the Rose – an escort service, he was to make an appearance in the Many Moons. To be fair to Henry it sounded as if it had been a tall order or a mass order by whoever was running the place. Perhaps the Vampires were having a bash, or a expecting a really grand envoy or something, personally Henry did not know nor did he particularly care.

All what he wanted was to go and get this night over with as soon as possible. The only reason as to why he was here to begin with was because of the pay – otherwise he would not have bothered to be here at all.

So he did what he usually did at a black tie event – he went up and got himself a drink at a bar. He was to join his client at exactly ten p.m. in his room. He had been even provided with a room key so that he could enter and leave freely. What he was not told was about the nature of the customer or of the nature of what exactly he would be doing. After his last client, and a rather peculiar game of chess, Henry could only hope that this would just involve sex.

He checked his watch again. It was five minutes before ten; he put his glass of scotch down and promptly went to the elevator. He pressed the number of the floor that he wanted to go to and waited as the elevator started going up.

"Hey mate, hold the door." he called out as Henry stepped into the elevator. Shawn was part of the pard that was true and for the first time in years he was starting to enjoy the constant press of leopard against his own beast. But he still needed his space and his job. So when the call came to come into Moons because an extra body was needed he showed up.

And he was almost on time too which was a new thing for shawn. He wasn't the most reliable of people but he got the job done and at the end of the day wasn't that exactly what mattered? No how he got there but how he left the place. He stepped into the elevator with Henry and hit the button for the third floor, ignoring the guard who was trying to do his job and hit the button for him. "They call you in too?" Shawn asked, pulling his jeans a little lower on his hips. They seemed to only just manage to defy gravity.

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Henry grabbed the closing elevator door by instinct as he heard a man call for it. Much to the annoyance of the man, well guard, inside of the elevator with him who gave him a look as if that had been his job. Henry just shrugged at the man as the person that had called out entered the elevator and promptly pressed the third floor as he did so – to the further annoyance of the guard. Henry could not help but to smirk as he stepped aside, giving the latecomer more space to make himself comfortable.

Henry himself did not care about personal space – however most other people, they had this hang up about privacy. But the man that had just gotten in was not like most other people, he concluded, as his nose picked up a faint scent of a fellow feline. The man was not a lion, he would have picked that up on the spot, but he was still rather closely related to them. Probably another feline strain?

A feline strain that was dressed quite unlike Henry. Henry had been dressed in a black suit with matching tie; basically he looked as if he was to attend some rather formal meeting. His new acquaintance on the other hand was dressed more along the lines of what Henry liked. Especially as he observed the man adjust his pants; that was one nice ass. And for once Henry did feel like it would acceptable of him to take a sneak peek of the part in question.

“Oh yes, they seemed to have called in quite a few people” he said as he looked up and onto the man’s back. He too was going for the third floor; could they be going to the same room? “Room 39?” he asked as the elevator came to a hold and the doors opened.

"either they had an outbreak of chicken pox or Shy is entertaining some very important guests." He turned his attention to the guard and made a bit of a show if inspecting his face. he tilted his head left then right before taking the mans jaw in his firm grip and forcing a long kiss to his mouth before pulling away. he clicked his tongue like he was savouring fine wine.

"You don't taste like chicken pox." he accused the guard who met his eyes directly. He knew all about Shawn and while the man got the job done he was sometimes a huge pain in his arse. "I'm shifter." he said and shawn slapped his own forehead. "Dang." He winked at Henry as the elevator stopped on the third floor. "Well let shi know that I checked and there is no chicken pox out break in the main elevator." he winked and left with henry.

he dug into his back pocket and found a screwed up piece of paper that he straightened out to read. "Yeah room 39." he frowned at Henry as they came to a stop infront of the door. "Wonder who gets to be the meat." he joked with a chuckle before knocking on the door

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Henry let out a hearty laugh as Shawn outright kissed the poor guard. The look on the guards face was priceless, almost if he could not make up his mind between smacking and kissing the man back. What was better was the fact that followed by the guard; namely that he too was a shifter. It was almost like a set up for a good joke: three shifters in an elevator and then one kisses the other. He could hardly wait to get to the punch line.

“I’m fairly sure that she’d appreciate knowing that…and just how personally invested you were in making sure that all are safe” he teased the other male as he got winked at. He shrugged as he left the elevator, giving the guard a bemused smirk, following the rather uppity lycanthrope in front of him. “I’m wondering why they’d need two” he followed up Shawn’s question with one of his own, not that he was given much time to contemplate the issue as the other feline promptly knocked at the door that was marked with the number 39.

“So you run around kissing random men a lot?” he asked as he retrieved the key from his suit pocket “Allow me” he added as he demonstrated the key. Once Shawn had moved out of the way Henry unlocked the door, and gently pushed the door open.

“Hello?” he said as he entered the place. It smelled of vampire, that particular scent that all of their kind had. What type of vampire? He could only hazard to guess. He walked into the room, making space for Shawn to follow should he choose too.

Sitting opposite of the door was a raven haired woman, by the looks of her, she appeared to be in her mid or late thirties, but odds were that she could be anywhere between her mid-thirties to her late four hundreds as far as he was able to tell. Henry opened his mouth to introduce himself, but the woman raised her finger silencing him before he could speak.

“I care not for you names. Feline Lycanthropes, both of you?” she said as turned to face both of them. “You are overdressed” she said a moment later as she nodded at Henry. Her head turned towards Shawn “Undress him” she said in a tone of voice that implied that she was not making a suggestion.

"Jealous we didn't make out in the elevator?" he joked but Shawn frowned when Henry produced a key card for the door. "Why do you get trusted with the key?" He play pouted. "I could be James Bond as well if I felt like it." He took a playful stab at the outfit Henry was wearing. Who was he trying to be? He was food. Vampires didn't care what their food got wrapped in as long as you were willing to be unwrapped if they felt like it. Or so the leopard thought but he didn't say anything else because the vampire was suddenly in front of them.

"But if you don't know our names, how can you request us again when we rock your undead world?" Shawn asked with his good guy next door smile firmly in place even as she directed him to strip Henry. "Told ya the suit was over doing it. We should have just shown up in our briefs." shawn took Henry's jacket first in his hands and pushed it back over his shoulders, putting chest to chest to complete the move. he let it fall unceremoniously to the floor.

"You ever see that movie true lies? This kinda feels like that. When Schwarzenegger sits in the dark and tells Jamie Lee Curtis to strip." He was working off Henry's buttons as he spoke. "Am I doing this right or should I do it more sexy?" Shawn looked over his shoulder at the woman, trying not to laugh

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“Nah, elevators and I don’t really mix, there had been this incident with a girl a few years back…” he said with shrug. He had sworn to himself never to have sex in an elevator again, after being stuck in one for eleven hours, with the before mentioned girl – who spent all eleven hours of their captivity blaming him for that. “But if you’d want to make out?” he half offered half teased the other man.

“I’ll take that as a compliment” he countered the James Bond bit and pulled the keycard through the lock. As to why he was entrusted with the key? He shrugged before replying “The guy at the reception said that I was to take it, no idea why, probably because I came a bit earlier” he guessed. “Or maybe it is the suit” he teased the other male again.

Henry did have to bite his tongue, to keep himself from laughing, as Shawn flirted with the vampire woman; most people were not that at ease around others. Well he used to be, but that was quite a while ago, and before a whole lot of life changing events. He did shake his head as Shawn seemed rather pleased with his own estimate, letting the other feline pull his jacket off and letting it fall to the floor. The scent of the male fully invaded Henry’s nose as he came closer, chest-to-chest so to speak. It was a scent that Henry found he could enjoy.

“Try not to enjoy yourself too much” Henry said bemusedly to the shifter as he started to work on the buttons of his buttoned down shirt, as he unbuttoned the buttons Henry’s white undershirt came into view. His tie was still around his neck but odds were that Shawn would take care of it soon enough. “I don’t think I’ve seen that one” he commented on the movie, to be fair the only Schwarzenegger movie that he saw had the main lead running around and shooting people. In a way it was a rather extreme form of birth control, but hey, whatever works. "The last one that with Schwarzenegger that I saw was a dissapointment, decided to skip him after that" he added with a shrug.

Henry watched the vampire woman from the corner of his eye as Shawn asked her a question; she seemed to be contemplating something “Yes” she said finally. She said it with an almost curious streak , almost as if to see what Shawn had had in mind.

Shawn sighed when the quote, while butchered a little, had been mistaken for him actually looking for direction. What was wrong with this world when people didn't spend time with the classics. Where 3D featured in every film because we live in a 3D world and movie quotes saved any awkward situation. not made them worse. "One night we are going to watch that movie and you are going to laugh at how eerily similar it is to this one.' He told them both before he grabbed the knot in Henrys tie and pulled.

Henry quickly stood naked from the the waist up and shawn went for his belt, slipping the leather free and not bothering to remove it from the loops before he was working on the button and zipped. Gravity took hold once he slid them over Henry's hips. "When she said undress, I think that includes underwear." Shawn smirked, not bothering for the vampire to confirm or deny it before her had the sides of Henry's boxers and her pulled them down as he came to kneel before the man. Looking up his naked body shawn smiled as if he had no problems with this at all. "Good view from here. How about you Duchess?" he asked the woman who had called for them.

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“So popcorn and a movie, not a bad offer for a first date” Henry joked as the man seemed rather annoyed with Henry’s lack of film knowledge. Shawn took hold of his tie and undid it; it was dropped rather unceremoniously onto the floor with the rest of Henry’s stuff. Thus Henry was quickly rendered half naked, from the waist up at least. Shawn seemed to be reading the vampire woman’s mind as he proceeded to undo his belt, it did leave Henry wondering just how often vampires tended to play with their food. And even just how comfortable was Shawn with all of this?

Sure he had smooched some guy in the elevator, but a random kiss, wrapped as a joke did not mean that Shawn himself liked to play with the southern regions of another man’s physiology. This could prove complicated if the vampire woman decided she wanted to see more of a show before she decided to eat.

Henry stepped out of his pants as they dropped down to his ankles, then Shawn commented on Henry’s boxers and a moment later, Henry offered a smile of encouragement to the other man as he did so, he felt Shawn’s hands sliding under the waistband of his boxers. With one fell swoop he slid the lion’s underwear down, exposing him fully for the vampire woman to examine and to observe. He had to give it the man; he was certainly not an indecisive one. Still…he had this nagging feeling that Shawn was not quite in his comfort zone. Regardless of his wry comments and puns – then again he might just be projecting his own dislike of the place onto the other male.

“Thanks” Henry said with a smirk “Can’t say that I don’t like the sight of you down there either” he teased, playing along in their little game.

The vampire woman nodded as she eyed Henry fully, his physique, his well defined muscles, fact was that she was literary looking like the cat that was about to eat the canary. She even licked her lips. What Henry could not make sense, though, was why was she playing with them at all? Why not just drink her fill and be done with it? Unless she happened to be one of those vampires that fed of emotions as well as blood.

“Very good” the woman spoke after a moment of contemplation “Now you, undress the other one” she nodded at Henry to proceed. Henry nodded and offered Shawn his hand to get up his knees. As soon as the other man was up Henry offered another smile.

He pulled Shawn’s white shirt up, pulling it over the man’s head, and coming so close that he almost touched the tip of the shifters nose with his own as he did so. The white shirt was soon discarded onto the floor among Henry’s things, leaving Shawn bare-chested as well.

“So, any other good movies that you could recommend?” Henry asked, in an attempt to start some chit-chat with the other male, as his fingers started to work on Shawn’s belt.

he was almost sure that he was about to be directed in giving the other man a blow job. He was there after all and she seemed to be a woman who liked to watch after all. But instead she wanted him nude as well. Shawn took Henry's hand and rose, turning to the vampire could see more of him as Henry went through the same procedure of undressing him.

"Nothing in particular but the nineties was the decade for action and eighties loved the horror stuff." He said, not commenting on the first date joke because honestly Shawn didn't date. He hung out, occasionally had sex but mostly he avoided dates like the plague. "I should warn you I'm not wearing underwear." Gay or not Shawn didn't know anyone who was happy to see a flaccid cock suddenly in his face.

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Henry smirked as Shawn offered his opinion about the movie decades, particularly that the nineties were good years for horror movies. Henry himself preferred less horror movies, more comedies, or dare he even admit it? Romantic comedies. Not that he would ever so say out loud, but he loved movies like Pretty Woman, with a passion.

A small chuckle escaped the lion as Shawn informed him that he was not wearing underwear under his jeans. He gave him a bit of an approving look as he undid the shifters belt and started working on the buttons of the man’s pants, he undid the second button and the pants slid down of their own accord, probably due to the fact how low Shawn had decided to wear them. Thus here both of them were – naked, barefoot and with a vampire in the room, not quit e the punch line that he had expected but somehow he doubted that this was the end of this particular joke.

“Very good” the vampire approved again. She licked her lips at the site of the two men, a smirk of her own dancing on her lips as she took the site of them in. Henry stepped next to Shawn, almost as if the two men were standing to be inspected by a military official.

“I approve” she said as she seemed to be mulling something over “Shiloh is a most gracious host to send me a pair of such specimens” she crossed her legs as she said that, and leaned back into her chair. Then she turned to face Henry and nodded at him. “You, blonde one, pleasure him” she said simply without giving any further instruction onto the matter. She seemed to be a woman of few words.

“As you wish” Henry said with a nod and turned slowly to face Shawn again. He placed the palm of his hand onto the man’s face and gently caressed him with his thumb, their eyes making contact for a brief moment, enjoying the feel of the stubble on his skin. A second later and he closed the distance between two, drawing Shawn into a kiss. It was a deep kiss, passionate, and long, all that the Vampiress probably wanted to see. His one hand lingered on Shawn’s face and the other held onto his hip, he might be under orders but he was not just about to invade Shawn’s privacy without at least knowing how much experience the shifter had with other men.

“Ever did this before… with a man?” he whispered his concern, barely audible into Shawn’s ear as he kissed and nuzzled the male’s neck. A human would probably have just heard noise, a shifter would have understood him, especially at this distance, without alerting the vampire. Pending his answer Henry would have to decide how to…handle things.

He didn't just stand there and take the kiss like a robot. The vampire obviously had a voyerism thing going on which was fine for Shawn even though he kinda hated wasting his time with vampires who just wanted a show. There were a hundred strip clubs that would do just this for less money then what he was getting paid for being here tonight. But he was being paid and so he gave into the lion mans kiss as if he wanted it, crushing him close to his bare chest and subtly turning them so the woman could see each man as they fought against each other in letting the kiss momentum grow.

Just a little breathless Shawn laughed, a dark and deep sounding thing as he ran a hand back through the lions hair and along his jaw. "I'm twenty nine years old and a known donor in the city. You really think I would get this far in life without getting a little man on man action?" He chuckled. "Sweet really but never think you are the first of anything in this line of work. Fuck me, suck me, call my beast and fuck me again. Everything and anything I have done it at least twenty times over." He gave Henry a slight shrug of his shoulders. "Just do what she says and we get out of this alive. I'm willing if you are."

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Henry could not help but to smile as Shawn assured him that he had no issues when dealing with other men – particularly in a sexual manner. Particularly as he ran his hand through Henry’s hair, almost petting him in a manner, the smile turned sheepish a moment later. So this night might not turn out to be an unmitigated disaster as he had suspected. There was a vampire here, with a rather well developed fetish, sure, but he did have a willing partner to for the show that the vampire expected to see.

“I was not aware that you donors had such a varied…life” he said as he felt Shawn’s hand slide onto his jaw. “Good to know though” he said as he leaned forward again and pressed his lips against Shawn’s once more.

The hand on Shawn’s hip slid, and Henry cupped the man’s ass, firmly grasping it as he pulled Shawn into his embrace. This was no mere kiss; at least it did not stay so, as Henry did not just use his lips, but his entire body to kiss the other male. Pressing their bodies against each other, letting the other male feel his skin against his own, his warmth and his body, almost allowing the feline to feel his animal that moved under his skin.

“I’m more than happy to test that theory” he added as he broke the kiss and proceeded to kiss Shawn down his jaw line, onto his neck and leave a trail of kisses down the man’s collarbone. Henry’s lips tasted the man’s skin as he left a trail following down Shawn’s chest and abdomen and suddenly the roles were reversed. Now it was Henry that was on his knees, his hand firmly holding the other man’s hips as with the other he took hold of Shawn’s dick. A second later he proceeded to kiss the tip of the man’s organ.

A second later and Shawn’s cock found itself inside of Henry’s mouth as he took to expertly tease the man with his tongue. He cast a quick glance onto the vampire, she remained firmly seated, clearly enjoying the sight.

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